Editing Orca (section)

===Population===
Worldwide population estimates are uncertain, but recent consensus suggests a minimum of 50,000 (2006).{{sfn|Ford|Ellis|2006}}<ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021" /><ref name=noaa>{{cite web |title=Killer whale (''Orcinus orca'') |website=NOAA Fisheries |publisher=Office of Protected Resources, [[National Marine Fisheries Service]] |url=http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/whales/killer-whale.html |access-date=August 15, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709160557/http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/whales/killer-whale.html |archive-date=July 9, 2017 }}</ref> Local estimates include roughly 25,000 in the Antarctic, 8,500 in the tropical Pacific, 2,250–2,700 off the cooler northeast Pacific and 500–1,500 off Norway.{{sfn|NMFS|2005|p=46}} Japan's Fisheries Agency estimated in the 2000s that 2,321 orcas were in the seas around Japan.<ref>[http://sha-chi.jp/en/contents/japanorca_01e.htm Ecology of Japanese Coastal Orcas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090822013642/http://sha-chi.jp/en/contents/japanorca_01e.htm |date=August 22, 2009 }}, sha-chi.jp. Retrieved February 17, 2010</ref><ref>[http://ika-net.jp/en/our-actions/coastal-small-cetacean-conservation/215-ten-years-after-taiji-orca-capture Ten Years after Taiji Orca Capture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301122413/http://ika-net.jp/en/our-actions/coastal-small-cetacean-conservation/215-ten-years-after-taiji-orca-capture |date=March 1, 2014 }}, January 28, 2007. Iruka (dolphin) and Kujira (whale) Action Network (IKAN): Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Retrieved February 17, 2010</ref>